With 232 pages and an expanded 12″ by 12″ format, our biggest print issue yet celebrates the people, places, music, and art of our hometown, including cover features on David Lynch, Nipsey Hussle, Syd, and Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, plus Brian Wilson, Cuco, Ty Segall, Lord Huron, Remi Wolf, The Doors, the art of RISK, Taz, Estevan Oriol, Kii Arens, and Edward Colver, and so much more.
Full of Hell, Coagulated Bliss
The shapeshifting grindcore collective continue to find new brutal horizons to explore on their expansive yet focused first non-collaborative LP in three years.
Broadcast, Spell Blanket – Collected Demos 2006-2009
The first of two sets of hazy, unfinished recordings from the cult experimental pop band expected this year explores numerous sonic worlds within its lo-fi, homespun arrangements.
The Lemon Twigs, A Dream Is All We Know
The brotherly bubblegum duo continues to channel vintage pop figures ranging from Brian Wilson to Todd Rundgren on their fifth album of exquisite harmonies and contagious melodies.
Eric Stolze
The Windy City–bred, LA-based comedian takes on the joys of concealed carry and Laotian honeymoons in his new Comedy Central special.
For the third edition of the LA foodie takeover, a friendly frenzy was prompted in the partakers’ own personal paradise.
Normal is never normal for the LA experimental hip-hop trio.
FLOOD’s Download All pays tribute to the cult obsessions, strange thrills, and hidden rewards of Earth’s newest and most underestimated artform: the podcast.
A good music festival for a bad year.
Download All pays tribute to the cult obsessions, strange thrills, and hidden rewards of Earth’s newest and most underestimated artform: the podcast.
While it searches for its heart, the banter and beatings give Shane Black’s action-comedy its wings.
Two of our film critics take on the latest installment in the intergalactic space opera in the preferred forum of pop-culture enthusiasts everywhere: the Gmail G-chat.
Believe your ears: the musical “Hamilton” really is an American dream.
Spielberg skips espionage thrills to focus on the drama found in decency
The long-awaited update to the Jurassic franchise is less theory, more chaos.
How “Mad Men”’s finale found a billion-dollar harmony between its two warring cultures.
The unexpected engine of “Mad Max: Fury Road”’s post-apocalyptic chase delivers a revolutionary thrill
Collaborators, fans, and the beloved cult director himself took to the United Artists Theatre stage to raise awareness and funds on the tenth anniversary of the David Lynch Foundation.
Flaws and all, David Robert Mitchell’s indie horror flick follows its own instincts with style and scares.
Will Forte, Phil Lord, and Christopher Miller’s post-apocalypse is just getting started.
Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s mockumentary continues the hip reclamation of vampires
The writer/director of the critical smash “Whiplash” taps into our fear (and love) of tyrannical mentors